Ruprecht von Kaufmann (born 1974 in Munich, Germany) studied painting and illustration at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, United States. In addition to his work as a painter, von Kaufmann has taught at the Berlin University of Arts, the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. After stays in Los Angeles and New York, von Kaufmann has been living and working in Berlin since 2003.

The wide-ranging oeuvre of Ruprecht von Kaufmann includes painting, sculpture and works on paper. His focus is on painting, which reveals a preference for figuration and abstract elements. Ruprecht von Kaufmann's complex and mysterious pictorial worlds are located somewhere between reality and fiction, the possible and the impossible. In his works, the artist initiates a dialogue about modern men, their environment and human relationships. He subtly reflects our actions, thoughts and feelings in a society plagued by unrest. The results are scenes full of suggestive power, which emotionally involve the beholder. For several years now, von Kaufmann has been working with colored linoleum as a painting ground. In many of his paintings, he carves into the material with a linoleum knife. The process of destruction is thus an elementary component of his works. As a result, the different levels that come to the surface unfold an extraordinary three-dimensionality.